The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom

by Rawicz, Slavomir
ISBN: 9781493022618
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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over thousands of miles by foot--out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free. While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author, as well as the author's Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind. *** Six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back, a much-anticipated film based on The Long Walk. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
  • ISBN: 9781493022618
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2016

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  • Classic adventure/survival memoir

    Brian M. - 7 years 5 months ago

    The Long Walk is the tale - perhaps fictitious - of a grueling trek by a group of people who escaped from a Soviet death camp and managed to walk from Siberia to India. The journey was 4,000 miles with no outside assistance and no supplies but the clothes on their backs and what they could forage on the way. The varied group of personalities included political prisoners, POWs, common criminals, and innocent victims of Communist policies. Many did not survive the journey, which passed through the Gobi desert and the Himalayas. The story was recently adapted as a relatively faithful movie called "The Way Back." The veracity of the whole story has been called into question, with some commentators believing that the author either made the story up entirely or merely recounted and embellished the story he heard from another person. A recent and serious effort was made to evaluate the story by Linda Willis in her book "Looking for Mr. Smith". The outcome was mixed though her book does support some of the claims in "The Long Walk." True or not? You decide!

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